Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-01-21
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Tho Warden of the New Jersey Peniten-
itentiary frustrated plot by the convicts to
kill the keepers and free themselves. 1t ap
pears that jewelers. saws were struggled into
the prison in bars of soap and plugs of tobacco
and that several iron bars were sawed through.
David johnson, a member of the North
Chicago Corps of the Salvation Army, has
been arrested for the preparation of seven
burglaries
Robert McGcorge, of Luson Valley, Penn
sylvania, who usually carries a large amount
of money on his person, was shot through the
head and breast by three masked robbers in
the presence of his family.
A mob at Stockville, Nebraska dragged
Henry Pohre from his house to the nearest
tree, with the intention of hanging him. on
suspicion of committing rape, but after re-
ceiving fatal injuries he was given his liberty.
A fire at Lawrence, Kansas, early ycster
day morning, burned the dry goods store of
places in the same block, causing q loss Of
100000
An explosion which totally destroyed the
dynamite factory, at Plattsburg, N. y, on the
18th, was distinctly felt twenty miles away.
1t has been ascertained that J. l. Beatty,
of Bloomington, ILL.,, persisted in the flames of
the recent Baltimore and Ohio train wreck,
making the total killed by this disaster four
teen, as far as known.
The costly and magnificent Washington
rac;Iopoa Of Drof Or 1,or Rail
ventor of the Bell telephone, WAS burned on
the morning of the 18th. The fire originated
in the Professors laboratory, attached to the
house, and spread so rapidly that Mrs. Bell
and her children had no time to dress, but
were forced to flee from their beds into the
street in their night-clothing. Prof, Bell was
absent in New York at the time. His valuable
scientific library of 5000 volumes is entirely
destroyed, and also most Of his costly electri-
cal apparatus, the accumulation of years of
labor The loss on the house is about $780,
600; other losses are large, but impossible to
estimate
BY the derailing of a passenger train run
ming at high rate of speed over the Indian
apolis and Fincennes road seventy-tivc people
were more or less injured, but no one killed
-On the morning of the Sth, at Springfield,
Ohio, the Ohio Southern Railway machine and
car shops, were burned Six locomotives and
two cars, and valuable machinery and build
ings were destroyed. Loss, $4,000; fully
insured
Burglars who took 500 in currency from
the grocery store Of Padberg & Brother, St
LOUIS overlooked package of ST 600 in cur
rency.
Miss Ollie Brown, of Middletown, New
York, has been sent to an insane asylum, the
result of slanderous reports circulated by John
W. Baird. She attempted suicide with pocket
knife
James Acheson, late manager of the Hotel
Florence at Pullman, Ill, who en1bczzled So,
oG0 and lost it by gambling, was yesterday
sentenced to five months imprisonment in the
county Jail and fine of 81 900
A man claiming to be the perpetrator of
the recent dynamite outrage ON a cable road in
San Francisco has written to newspaper i'll
that city that the responsible parties are men
bers of an organization formed i'll Chicago Ill
r.ctly after the Haymarket explosion
OF the American registered packages lost
in the Belgian mail robbery of November, 40
we're found under sofa in q hotei parlor Mt
Brussels, only IA of them having been opened